7 cybersecurity tips for your summer vacation!
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:23:26 +0000
Here you go – seven thoughtful cybersecurity tips to help you travel safely…
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Facebook 2FA scammers return – this time in just 21 minutes
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:46:14 +0000
Last time they arrived 28 minutes after lighting up their fake domain… this time it was just 21 minutes
Read moreDrop, crack, d'oh! My broken Android phone epiphany
Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700
Man, I had one hell of a streak.
All these years — approximately 7,967 since I first started using and writing about Android — and somehow, rather miraculously, I’d never outright broken a phone.
Impressive, I know. But don’t let yourself get wrapped in awe yet, my fellow drop-dreading denizen: My streak of impeccable Android phone protection has officially come to a crashing halt.
Now, I didn’t technically drop my phone, mind you. And I didn’t technically break it myself, either. But it was definitely broken. And it happened on my watch.
Insecure password leads to Mangatoon data breach
Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:20:49 +0000
Popular comics site Mangatoon has been breached due to a poorly secured database.
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Read moreEurope threatens to ban Facebook over data transfers to the US
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:36:30 +0000
The EU is warning Meta that it needs to make big changes to the way it handles data transfers between the Europe and US.
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Read moreApple slaps hard against ‘mercenary’ surveillance-as-a-service industry
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 06:17:00 -0700
Apple has struck a big blow against the mercenary “surveillance-as-a-service” industry, introducing a new, highly secure Lockdown Mode to protect individuals at the greatest risk of targeted attacks. The company is also offering millions of dollars to support research to expose such threats.
Starting in iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura, and available now in the latest developer-only betas, Lockdown Mode hardens security defenses and limits the functionalities sometimes abused by state-sponsored surveillance hackers. Apple describes this protection as “sharply reducing the attack surface that potentially could be exploited by highly targeted mercenary spyware.”
Microsoft backs off facial recognition analysis, but big questions remain
Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700
Microsoft is backing away from its public support for some AI-driven features, including facial recognition, and acknowledging the discrimination and accuracy issues these offerings create. But the company had years to fix the problems and didn’t. That’s akin to a car manufacturer recalling a vehicle rather than fixing it.
Despite concerns that facial recognition technology can be discriminatory, the real issue is that results are inaccurate. (The discriminatory argument plays a role, though, due to the assumptions Microsoft developers made when crafting these apps.)
Let’s start with what Microsoft did and said. Sarah Bird, the principal group product manager for Microsoft’s Azure AI, summed up the pullback last month in a Microsoft blog.
European Parliament approves sweeping big tech antitrust laws
Credit to Author: Charlotte Trueman| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 06:28:00 -0700
The European Commission announced late yesterday that the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA) have been voted through, marking a new chapter for how technology companies will be able to operate in the EU. The parliament voted 588 in favor and 11 against for the DMA, while 539 MEPs backed the DSA, with 54 votes against.
Google to delete location data of trips to abortion clinics
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:39:11 +0000
Google upped it privacy efforts by deleting location history of visits to abortion clinics.
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Read moreTikTok is “unacceptable security risk” and should be removed from app stores, says FCC
Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:51:08 +0000
According to the FCC commissioner, TikTok being a video app is the “sheep’s clothing”, suggesting a wolf hides underneath those funny videos.
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